[LiamM]

What do you think are the best tools and tricks to use for creating a server advertisement via a small trailer / video?

[Babul]

a few things which could be useful:
-record on a clean partition, if there are scattered files, then the recording may jitter. best tool: (still) FRAPS
-(game)play&record it at some higher FPs sometimes, if you want to create a slo-mo effect. good for explosions, focussing important scenes
-use a good authoring tool like AVid, Premiere, or Vegas
-add a 4-8 second jingle (logo+sound) before playing back the trailer
-dont reveal all features
-best: dont over-edit it ^^

[-Shifty-]

- Mirrils Action
- Vegas Pro Skills.

[Junkyard145]

First DON'T OVER USE sun flares... This gets annoying...Use something simple and don't over do it...Don't attempt to make your server look like a server owned by kids who know nothing about what they're doing..
Now if you are doing an RP server...Don't make it look like un rp actions
Drift...No way you can mess that up
Stunt/DM Kill all lol

[LiamM]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Junkyard145 First DON'T OVER USE sun flares... This gets annoying...Use something simple and don't over do it...Don't attempt to make your server look like a server owned by kids who know nothing about what they're doing.. Now if you are doing an RP server...Don't make it look like un rp actions Drift...No way you can mess that up Stunt/DM Kill all lol

Thanks for all the responses guys and I agree... The sun flares do get annoying when every scene change on a video there is a sun flare.. but thanks for the advice too!

[RajatPawar]

Also, I'd suggest not adding stupid conversations like "Wannabe_ganster_A: Whassup, bro?? Wannabe_ganster_B: Dope" because they are irritating, make it as fast paced as you can!

[Junkyard145]

Adding on to Rajat's saying;
I would say go ahead and do that or try actual voice acting make something different but don't attempt to cause a 5 minute conversation unless it causes climax of intense watching..But other than that don't